He is here It is wonderful to consider the way in which God, who measures the cosmos with a single span, is able and willing to focus on a single individual. I sometimes think of it as one of those
Known unto God – Abraham, my Friend – Part 03
Chapter One: Beginnings Known unto God In British War Cemeteries throughout the world you often come across the words ‘Known unto God’ engraved on tombstones. The words were authored by the writer Rudyard Kipling whose own son was killed in World
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To serve and to guard Let’s continue a little on the theme of God’s promise of blessing for and through Abraham. We use it so often don’t we? The word ‘bless’? As a testimony: ‘The Lord blessed the meeting’, ‘I
If we say we have no sin… Part 2
If we move through John Wycliffe’s version of Inductive Bible Study one of our next questions will have to be ‘to whom’ was this said. With some of the epistles this is an easy question to answer as the epistles
B. A servant to the circumcision

Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy… . (Rom 15:8–9 NKJV)
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man Preface: Every story has a purpose and my re-telling of this story has its purpose revealed in our sub-title. Abraham’s life is rich in illustration of the purposes of God and
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the head of an old man by Guernico used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Transcendent and Immanent It is wonderful to consider the way in which God, who measures the cosmos with a single span, is able
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Machpelah, a costly hiding place In the Hebrews 11 ‘National Gallery of the Heroes of Faith’ there is a single reference to Jacob/Israel but with a double focus: By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons
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Foundations for a blessing It is time now to examine the Blessing. Thus far we have identified Abraham as an ordinary man who became an extraordinary man. He was born into no special family and had no special advantages but
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Chapter One: Beginnings In the beginning… Every Christian biography should begin with the words “In the beginning God..” Our Bible begins with these words and, on reflection, it could begin with no others. How else would anything ‘begin’? The gospel


